Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.

You can successfully force people to follow a certain course, but you cannot force them to understand it.

If I do not participate in the sacrifice, it is as if I did not sacrifice at all.

If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger... Men of superior mind busy themselves first getting at the root of things; when they succeed, the right course is open to them.